• About us
  • People
  • Expertise
    • Sectors
        • Technology, media & communications Technology, media & communications
        • Private Wealth Private wealth
        • Real estate, infrastructure & energy
        • Life sciences & healthcare icon Life sciences & healthcare
        • Aerospace & defence
        • Automotive & mobility
        • Business & professional services
        • Chemicals
        • Consumer & retail
        • Financial institutions & insurance
        • Hotels, hospitality & leisure
        • Logistics & transport
        • Manufacturing & industrials
        • Public services & education
    • Legal services
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Banking & finance
        • Brands & advertising
        • Commercial & consumer contracts
        • Competition, EU & trade
        • Copyright & media law
        • Corporate crime & compliance
        • Corporate/M&A & capital markets
        • Data & cyber
        • Disputes & investigations
        • Employment, pensions & mobility
        • Environmental, planning & regulatory
        • Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
        • Information technology
        • Multi-service
        • Patents & innovation
        • Private client
        • Private equity
        • Projects, energy & infrastructure
        • Real estate & construction
        • Regulation
        • Restructuring & insolvency
        • Tax
        • Venture capital
  • Locations
    • Europe
        • Locations
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • Czech Republic
        • France
        • Germany
        • Hungary
        • Italy
        • Netherlands
        • Poland
        • Portugal
        • Ireland
        • Slovakia
        • Spain
        • United Kingdom
        • Ukraine
          Groups & regions
        • CEE Turkish Desk
        • French German group
        • Our offices
    • Middle East & Africa
        • Locations
        • Middle East
        • UAE
          Groups
        • Africa group
        • Israel group
        • Our offices
    • Americas
        • Locations
        • Latin America
        • USA
          Groups
        • Brazil group
        • Our offices
    • Asia
        • Locations
        • Asia
        • China
        • South Korea
          Groups
        • India group
        • Japan group
        • Our offices
  • Insights
    • Insights
        • Featured Topics
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Data Centre Expertise
        • The EU Whistleblower Directive
        • German Supply Chain Act
        • Unified Patent Court
          Content hub
        • Global Data Hub
        • Interface: tech, IP and media law
        • Podcasts
        • Synapse
        • Browse All Insights
    • Events
        • In person
        • Online
        • Browse All Events
    • News
        • Media centre
        • Work highlights
        • Firm news
        • Browse all news
  • Careers
  • EN
    • English
    • 中文(简体)
    • Français
    • Deutsch
  • Home
  • People
  • Michael Baumhauer
Dr. Michael Baumhauer
Dr. Michael Baumhauer

Dr. Michael Baumhauer

Of Counsel

  • Hamburg Germany
Contact Me Today
+49 40 36803 0
vCard
Email me Call me
Featured award

Spear's 500 2025

Top recommended 2025 aviation and yachts lawyer

Scroll to featured award

Michael is specialised in providing advice, drafting contracts, and dispute resolution in the field of industrial plant construction with a focus on maritime plant construction.

 

As an expert with many years of experience in this field, he advises clients in the shipbuilding sector and offshore industry. Michael is also the author of the technical book with the original title “Schiffe und Offshore Konstruktionen – Vertragsgestaltung im maritimen Anlagenbau” (Ships and Offshore Construction - Contract Drafting in the Area of Maritime Plant Construction).

Expertise

Services and Groups

Real estate & construction
Commercial & consumer contracts
Disputes & investigations
Projects, energy & infrastructure
Product liability & product safety
Construction & engineering

Sectors

Logistics & transport
Manufacturing & industrials
Real estate
Aerospace & defence
Insurance
Construction

Plant Construction

Download the brochure

CV

Since 2021 Of-Counsel, Taylor Wessing
1999 – 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing, previously Curschmann Rechtsanwälte
1996 – 1998 Counsel, Curschmann Rechtsanwälte
1986 – 1996 Corporate Counsel, Blohm Voss AG/Thyssen Industrie AG
1984 – 1986 Associate, Hasche Albrecht Fischer
1980 – 1983 Legal clerkship, Doctorate, Hamburg
1985 Doctoral degree examination
1983 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
1983 Second state examination, Hamburg
1979 First state examination, Freiburg

Career

Since 2021 Of-Counsel, Taylor Wessing
1999 – 2021 Partner, Taylor Wessing, previously Curschmann Rechtsanwälte
1996 – 1998 Counsel, Curschmann Rechtsanwälte
1986 – 1996 Corporate Counsel, Blohm Voss AG/Thyssen Industrie AG
1984 – 1986 Associate, Hasche Albrecht Fischer
1980 – 1983 Legal clerkship, Doctorate, Hamburg

Education

1985 Doctoral degree examination
1983 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
1983 Second state examination, Hamburg
1979 First state examination, Freiburg

Publications

Info-Film: Fast Track Arbitration: Michael Baumhauer erläutert beschleunigte Schiedsverfahren, 10/2018

Time is of the Essence – the Case for Fast Track Arbitration, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Edition #13, September/2018

Schiffe und Offshore Konstruktionen - Vertragsgestaltung im maritimen Anlagenbau, Hamburg, 2014

Memberships & Associations

Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (DIS)
German Maritime Arbitrators Association
Rechtsausschuss des VSM (Verband für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik e.V.)
GMT (Gesellschaft für Maritime Technik e.V.)
Deutsch-Schweizerische Gesellschaft Hamburg e.V.

Additional languages

English

Awards

Spear's 500 2025

Featured

Top recommended 2025 aviation and yachts lawyer

Legal 500 Germany 2021

Leading individual: maritime business law

The Best Lawyersâ„¢ in Germany 2020, 2021

Leading individual: Transportation law

Experience

A listed technology group on the construction of various satellite projects

A listed technology group on the construction of various satellite projects.

Dr. Michael Baumhauer
Dr. Janina Pochhammer

Construction and refit of several of the largest mega yachts in the world

Shipyards, designers and ship owners on the construction and refit of several of the largest and most exclusive mega yachts in the world including MY Eclipse, MY A, MY Mayan, Queen IV, MY Eco, MY Lady Moura, MY Golden Odyssey, MY Dubai, MY Radiant and MY Triple Seven.

Dr. Michael Baumhauer
Dr. Janina Pochhammer

Related news & insights

ip
Copyright & media law

Could construction projects be halted as a result of the amendment to the Dutch Copyright Act

25 November 2025
Briefing

by Maarten Rijks and Manon van Weezel

Click here to find out more
Private Wealth
Private wealth

Private wealth – UK real estate market update

24 November 2025
Quick read

by Leona Ahmed and Paul Lawrence

Click here to find out more
Tunnel with vanishing point and neon lights
Product liability & product safety

New guidance on the General Product Safety Regulation: a snapshot of key clarifications

21 November 2025
Quick read

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
View from below of forest trees
Environmental, social & governance (ESG)

The ICJ climate Opinion and ISDS: mapping new terrain for investment dispute resolution

19 November 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Two coloured ropes knotted together
Disputes & investigations

The sting and the tale

19 November 2025
Quick read

by Andrew Howell and Natalia Faekova

Click here to find out more
Battery Storage Plant and City
Battery Storage

Bundestag Decides on the Privileging of Battery Storage Facilities in Outdoor Areas under § 35 (1) BauGB

12 November 2025
Quick read

by Dr. Julia Wulff and Dr. Christian Ertel

Click here to find out more
Contrast between modern and ornate old facade residential building
Real estate & construction

Mietrechtsreform 2026 – Neue Strukturen, alte Unsicherheiten

5 November 2025
Briefing

by Nebojša Manojlović

Click here to find out more
View from below of forest trees
Environmental, social & governance (ESG)

From small island to big impact: what Vanuatu's ICJ climate win means for business

4 November 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more

AI disputes in action

31 October 2025
Click here to find out more
Tunnel with vanishing point and neon lights
Disputes & investigations

When intelligent systems fail: a case study in AI liability and the future of commercial disputes

31 October 2025
In-depth analysis

by Katie Chandler and Esha Marwaha

Click here to find out more
View all insights

Related people

Germany
Global
Galya Stareva

Galya Stareva, LL.M. (Hamburg)

Professional Support Lawyer

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson (née Rafiqpur)

Salary Partner

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile
Judith Schüler

Judith Schüler, LL.M.

Associate

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Nikoloz Alikhanashvili

Nikoloz Alikhanashvili

Senior Associate

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Johannes Callet

Johannes Callet, Lic. en Droit

Partner

Berlin
+49 30 885636 0
Email me
View profile
Harald Bechteler

Harald Bechteler

Partner

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Laura Mayr

Laura Stechno

Senior Associate

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Patrick Brock

Dr. Patrick Brock

Partner

Berlin
+49 30 885636 0
Email me
View profile
Jan Henrick Ellinghaus

Jan-Henrik Ellinghaus, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)

Associate

Munich
+49 89 21038 0
Email me
View profile
Christine Weyand

Christine Weyand

Salary Partner

Frankfurt
+49 69 97130 0
Email me
View profile
Full team
Andrej Leontiev

Andrej Leontiev, LL.M.

Partner

Bratislava
+421 2 5263 2804
Email me
View profile
Nathan Jolaoso

Nathan Jolaoso

Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Sophie Pignon

Sophie Pignon

Partner

Paris
+33 1 72 74 03 19
Email me
View profile

Chao Xuan

Senior Associate

Shanghai
+86 21 6247 7247
Email me
View profile
Matt Evans

Matt Evans

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Wim Maas

Dr. Wim Maas

Partner

Eindhoven
Amsterdam
+31 6 3175 2962
Email me
View profile
Tim Wünnemann

Dr. Tim Wünnemann

Partner

Berlin
+49 30 885636 0
Email me
View profile

Jane Hilton

Senior Counsel

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Lucas Bastiaanssen

Lucas Bastiaanssen

Associate

Eindhoven
+31 88 02 43 106
Email me
View profile
Claus Bunge

Claus Bunge

Senior Associate

Eindhoven
+31 88 02 43 142
Email me
View profile
Full team

Meet me at

There are no upcoming events

See all events
Subscribe to our latest insights
  • About us
  • Campaigns and online tools
  • News
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Locations
  • Insights
  • Events
  • Media centre
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Alumni
  • Data protection & privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Regulatory information on costs
  • Complaints procedure for clients
  • Terms of use
  • Anti-slavery statement
  • Environmental
  • Scam emails

© Taylor Wessing